Delta of functionalities between OSYL Alpha and future releases

OpenSyllabus is now at its Alpha release, published in september 2008.
The next versions will be greatly enriched and some efforts will be made to make it as close as possible to the original concept of syllabus management presently used at HEC Montreal.
This is an overview of different points we will be addressing in order to meet this objective.

General

• Addition of other syllabus models: make sure OpenSyllabus can allow edition and display of those
  • By theme
  • By lab session
  • By lecture, theme and lab session
  • ...

• Integration with Peoplesoft academic system

• 4 types of syllabi
  • Directory syllabus(course academic description)
  • Generic(work syllabus)
  • Shareable
  • Specific(to one group)

• Publishing/Removing from publishing

OsylManager : syllabi management, creation, archiving

• Syllabus creation(differents options)
• Syllabus transformations(between generic, shareable and specific)
• Syllabus copying
• Syllabus deletion
• Syllabus archiving
• Resources and workgroup management

• Syllabus parameters(language, suffix)

OsylEditor : syllabus edition

• Resource qualification: interface, model, XML
  • Mandatory/complementary
  • Available at COOP HEC/Available at libray
  • Visible/non visible
  • Important
  • Public/reserved for students registered for the course
• Resource types
  • Internal document
  • Hyperlink
  • Exercise
  • Question/answer
  • citation
  • Contact information
  • News/Post-it
• Frequently Asked Questions page
• Rubrics display (to be refined)
• Printing: printable versions
• Notification for reserved resources in the published version of the syllabus
• Reordering (moving) a lecture (simply or by drag and drop)

OsylAdmin : OpenSyllabus general administration interface

General administration tasks